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Whatever Carpenters may arrive from any of the Colonies are to be immediately forwarded to Skenesborough by the Way of Wood Creek, & You will therefore write to Mr [Christopher J.] Yates who is at Cheshires to Order Batteaus to that Place, that they may not be detained there. ー
Date: 18 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By all Means advance the Carpenters Money, For I wish to get them at Work & will humour them with any thing to obtain that End. ー
Inclose You a List of Stores sent up Mr Hughes. If arrived, forward them to Tyonderoga, You will find a Duplicate of the List I sent down to General Washington when I wrote him on the 12th instant, ー Such Articles of that List as have not been sent up, You must...
Date: 25 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I should have thought that on such an Emergency as this is & when rigging cannot be had, that Every Person would readily lend a helping hand, If You cannot succeed in procuring the Articles mentioned, from the Proprietors of Sloops at Albany, And that the Committee upon a written Application in my Name, specifying the Articles, will not Oblige them to furnish Us, You must dispatch two...
Date: 31 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Your Letter of the 26th Inst came duly to hand by Express. Answer to which, I wish It was in my Power to supply General Schuyler with Every Article agreeable to his Orders, But as the principle Part of our Riggin for the Ships is already Cut & fixed for their proper Uses, in Course, we Cannot supply You with such Sizes of Riggin as You Want, & We being the same Time short twelve Tuns of...
Date: 31 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
let me inform you my Dear Sir that Genl Arnolds Character has been here traduced lately in the most villainous assasign like manner, and I understand the aspersions prevail with you. allow me then to obey the Dictates of justice, by asserting that I have been a spectator of His Conduct in the Hour of Danger, in the Moment of Gay Security have observed His exertions where the public Interest was...
Date: 5 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6